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I have a site made with flarum, it is unused but still online, to install it on the shared service what I did was to install it on my local server, then upload it to the shared service and change the configuration parameters, I never had any problems. The current installed version is 0.1.0-beta.15 and the times that I updated it I did it again in my local server and then I synchronized it with the shared service.

Same, I've been using Vanilla since 2006 and have contributed a few addons and bugfixes over the years but I dunno there's so little certainty about what kind of support the OSS community is going to get going forward and I'd rather migrate my forums on my terms rather than after the fires start.

I'll get this into the docs in an accessible format soon. For now, here's the plugins-per-feature required:

Hey, I am just looking into this now for my forum ozvolvo.org, I will give nitro-porter a go!

I've looked at the config for that parser and cannot figure out what's going on here. Some HTML is parsing for you and some isn't. It looks like an h1 (with a class), div (with a class), and br all won't parse. But the div and br are definitely allowlisted in the formatter. I dunno why h1 isn't but I could fix that easy enough. I suspect this is going to take me a bit longer to sort out.

I also thought about this, surely with some of the big enterprise companies that are on Vanilla Cloud they wouldn't be left on 7.4 when it goes EOL?

I've seen a few things on GitHub which suggests/confirms that PHP 8 is being worked on.

I'll keep my fingers crossed!

Found this on GitHub for info:-

If you have a fairly standard community setup & your community can tolerate a complete UI changeover, then you should probably switch to Flarum, yes.

But there are communities that have build up deep technical integrations into other CMSes, Apps, APIs etc. with lots of custom code and entire applications based on Garden/Vanilla. These won't be able to make such a switch. @phreak and I are running/managing some of those and we are commited to supporting them for the forseeable future. If you are interested in cooperating on patches and maybe even a helping on a fork, please contact us!

We can not make any promise that there will be a "community edition" with PHP8 support ready next month, but I since Vanilla Cloud will want to run on PHP8 themselves, I suspect the newer GitHub release branches may already be compatible albeit unbuilt.